American - Scientist | June 23, 1943 -
At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.
Vint Cerf
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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.
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The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.
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In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.
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To be honest, I joined Facebook as an experiment. I accepted all invitations just to see how many people would ask to be 'friends' - it quickly overwhelmed my time to process even the invitations and requests, let alone to actually go there and do anything.
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The three-piece suit has become sort of my trademark. You don't see them much anymore. It has several benefits: You may be overdressed on some occasions, but you can manage to fit into a huge range of circumstances.
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The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.
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